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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2000  > July  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 July 2000
Vol. 77 No. 7

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Education: Commodity, Come-On, or Commitment?805
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers807
J. Emory Howell
Reports from Other Journals
News from Online: Learning Communities808
Carolyn Sweeney Judd
Report
Nature: Cleaner Fuels for the Future810
Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon Cannon
Report
Glass--Sand + Imagination812
Kenneth E. Kolb and Doris K. Kolb
From Past Issues
How Does One Become a Chemist?817
Máximo Barón
Lessons for the 21st Century: 1999 James Flack Norris Award, sponsored by ACS Northeast Section818
J. J. Lagowski
Reports from Other Journals
Chem 13 News: Ways to Teach in the Classroom and Beyond824
Kathy Thorsen
Reports from Other Journals
The Science Teacher: Summer 2000 Reading825
Steve Long
Report
Chemistry, Teaching, and WebCT826
Renee Cole
News & Announcements827
Letters830
Correction830
Book and Media Reviews
150 and More Basic NMR Experiments: A Practical Course, 2nd Edition (by S. Braun, H.-O. Kalinowski, and S. Berger)831
reviewed by Nancy Mills
Book and Media Reviews
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (by Donald G. Crosby)831
reviewed by Paul Tomboulian
Information Page832
Book and Media Reviews
Laboratory Handbook for General Chemistry (by Norman E. Griswold, H. A. Neidig, James N. Spencer, and Conrad Stanitski)833
reviewed by Nancy Gordon
Book and Media Reviews
Properties of Materials (by Mary Anne White)833
reviewed by Richard W. Schaeffer
Book and Media Reviews
Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs: 67 Digestible Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life (by Joe Schwarcz)834
reviewed by Jay Labinger
Book and Media Reviews
Teacher's Tools® AP® Chemistry [CD-ROM]834
reviewed by Deborah McCool
Book and Media Reviews
ChemSkill Builder 2000, Version 6.1 [CD-ROM] (by James D. Spain and Harold J. Peters)835
reviewed by Wendy L. Keeney-Kennicutt
Advertising in This Issue836

 Chemistry for Everyone
Products of Chemistry
Artificial Glass--The Versatility of Poly(methyl methacrylate) from Its Early Exploitation to the New Millennium841
Michael S. Chisholm
Glass Doesn't Flow and Doesn't Crystallize and It Isn't a Liquid846
Stephen J. Hawkes
Applications and Analogies
Weak vs Strong Acids and Bases: The Football Analogy849
Todd P. Silverstein
Fulminic Acid in the History of Organic Chemistry851
Frederick Kurzer
The Story of the Wagner-Meerwein Rearrangement858
Ludmila Birladeanu

 In The Classroom
A Simple Method of Drawing Stereoisomers from Complicated Symmetrical Structures864
A. Haudrechy
The R/S System: A New and Simple Approach to Determining Ligand Priority and a Unified Method for the Assignment and Correlation of Stereogenic Center Configuration in Diverse Stereoformulas866
Dipak K. Mandal
Experiential, Cooperative, and Study Abroad Education
Chemical Education in Countries of the Former Soviet Union870
Evguenii I. Kozliak
Overhead Projector Demonstrations
Solvent Swelling and Optical Rotation Demonstrated on the Overhead Projector876
Dean J. Campbell and Sarah B. Rupe
Tested Demonstrations
The M&M® Superposition Principle879
John B. Miller
Tested Demonstrations
Simple and Inexpensive Classroom Demonstrations of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Magnetic Resonance Imaging882
Joel A. Olson, Karen J. Nordell, Marla A. Chesnik, Clark R. Landis, and Arthur B. Ellis, M. S. Rzchowski, S. Michael Condren, and George C. Lisensky

 In the Laboratory
The Discovery Approach to NMR: Development of Chemical-Shift Additivity Tables and Application to Product Identification890
Eric Bosch
Proton NMR Studies of the Conformation of an Octapeptide. An NMR Exercise for Biophysical Chemistry892
Anne Rehart and J. T. Gerig
Elucidation of Molecular Structure Using NMR Long-Range Coupling: Determination of the Single Isomer Formed in a Regiospecific Reaction895
Samuel Delagrange and Françoise Nepveu
Photochemistry of Chloropicrin. A Physical Chemistry Project898
E. A. Wade, T. P. Clemes, and K. A. Singmaster
Chemical Actinometry: Using o-Nitrobenzaldehyde to Measure Lamp Intensity in Photochemical Experiments900
Kristine L. Willett and Ronald A. Hites
A Practical Procedure for the Solid-Phase Synthesis of Azo Compounds in the Undergraduate Organic Laboratory903
Cailan Wang, Yulu Wang, Xiaoyang Wang, Xiaoxia Wang, and Hong Wang
The Synthesis and Analysis of Ammine Complexes of Copper and Silver Sulfate: An Undergraduate Laboratory Project904
Steven S. Clareen, Shireen R. Marshall, Kristin E. Price, Margaret B. Royall, Claude H. Yoder, and Richard W. Schaeffer

 Research: Science and Education
Understanding Chemical Shifts in pi-Systems: 13C, 15N, 17O NMR905
H. Dahn
Organic Acids without a Carboxylic Acid Functional Group910
G. V. Perez and Alice L. Perez
The Role of Metacognition in Learning Chemistry915
Dawn Rickey and Angelica M. Stacy
Simulations for Teaching Chemical Equilibrium920
Penelope A. Huddle, Margaret Dawn White, and Fiona Rogers

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
A Straightforward Method to Determine Equilibrium Constants from Spectrophotometric Data927
E. Keszei, M. G. Takács, and B. Vizkeleti
A More Pedagogically Sound Treatment of Beer's Law: A Derivation Based on a Corpuscular-Probability Model929
William D. Bare
JCE Software
General Chemistry Collection for Students (CD-ROM), Abstract of Special Issue 16, 4th Edition934
JCE Software
Lessons for Introductory Chemistry935
John S. Martin and Edward V. Blackburn
JCE Software
INQUAL-S936
Victor I. Bendall and Sean Johnson
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